Riverside Press
is pleased to be part of
Publish It!
A school-community
family literacy partnership.
Contact us at publishlcs@staff.ednet.ns.ca
PUBLISH IT, LAWRENCETOWN!
This popular program for parents, children and community members has come to Lawrencetown!! Families are invited to make picture books, illustrated with the photos you have or you take especially for your book. These books, about family and community events, people, hobbies, pets and activities, will help us “map” the Lawrencetown and surrounding area through the writing and publishing of books.
We are up and running. The books are being made and printed in the LCS Computer Lab. You can read some of the books, in Flip Book format, that have been written by families in Cambridge and Gaspereau at the Publish It Website.
Contact Jane Baskwill (jane.baskwill@msvu.ca) or Angie Carreira (publishlcs@staff.ednet.ns.ca) for more information.
So start thinking of ideas for your book. There is no cost to participate and you get a copy of your finished book, printed in colour. There will be lots of help and you don’t need any computer skills.
The
Publish It! project is designed to involve parents and children in the
writing, publishing and home/school use of high-interest,
locally produced books.
Parents come to school to work with their children to help make the books either after school or in the evening. They collaborate on the writing of the books and learn how to illustrate their books using photographs. The books are then published by the on-site publishing centres: Swingset Press & Gaspereau Press.
Photos of the local area, businesses, activities, cultural events and other subjects of interest are taken by parents and children and used to illustrate the text they write together.
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At each site, the school’s computers are used for the technology aspect of the publishing. There is a Centre Coordinator who oversees the Centre, along with Tech Support. These positions at Swingset Press are now staffed by parent volunteers.
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Parents and children learn how to insert their photos and text into word-processing programs and PowerPoint in order to publish their books. The books become part of the classroom and school libraries and are used for classroom instruction and home support.
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This project is a partnership between the Valley Community Learning Association, Mount Saint Vincent University and Lawrencetown Consolidated School and funded in part through the Family Literacy Initiative Endowment Fund.
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For more information contact Jane Baskwill, by phone at 584-3692 or email jane.baskwill@msvu.ca
